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27 February 2010
Small Asteroids, Bread Flour, and a Dutch Physicist's 150-year Old Theory
No, it's not the Universe Puzzle No. 3; rather, it's an intriguing result from recent work into the strange shapes and composition of small asteroids. Images sent back from space missions suggest that smaller asteroids are not pristine chunks of rock, but are instead covered in rubble that ranges in size from meter-sized boulders to flour-like [...]
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